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Assessment standards: the role of communities of practice and the scholarship of assessment

Pages 215-230 | Published online: 14 Sep 2010

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Emma Vaccari, Joyce Moonen-van Loon, Cees Van der Vleuten, Paula Hunt & Bruce McManus. (2023) Marking parties for marking written assessments: A spontaneous community of practice. Medical Teacher 0:0, pages 1-7.
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Ian P. Herbert, John Joyce & Trevor Hassall. (2014) Assessment in Higher Education: The Potential for a Community of Practice to Improve Inter-marker Reliability. Accounting Education 23:6, pages 542-561.
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Rebecca J. Howell. (2014) Grading rubrics: hoopla or help?. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 51:4, pages 400-410.
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Kim Watty, Mark Freeman, Bryan Howieson, Phil Hancock, Brendan O’Connell, Paul de Lange & Anne Abraham. (2014) Social moderation, assessment and assuring standards for accounting graduates. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 39:4, pages 461-478.
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Sonia Walker & Julia Hobson. (2014) Interventions in teaching first-year law: feeding forward to improve learning outcomes. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 39:3, pages 326-338.
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Karen Handley, Birgit den Outer & Margaret Price. (2013) Learning to mark: exemplars, dialogue and participation in assessment communities. Higher Education Research & Development 32:6, pages 888-900.
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Amani Bell, Rosina Mladenovic & Margaret Price. (2013) Students’ perceptions of the usefulness of marking guides, grade descriptors and annotated exemplars. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 38:7, pages 769-788.
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Fiona L. Bird & Robyn Yucel. (2013) Improving marking reliability of scientific writing with the Developing Understanding of Assessment for Learning programme. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 38:5, pages 536-553.
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Kerry Wimshurst & Matthew Manning. (2013) Feed-forward assessment, exemplars and peer marking: evidence of efficacy. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 38:4, pages 451-465.
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Rosemary Thomson. (2013) Implementation of criteria and standards-based assessment: an analysis of first-year learning guides. Higher Education Research & Development 32:2, pages 272-286.
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Richard Tucker. (2013) The architecture of peer assessment: do academically successful students make good teammates in design assignments?. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 38:1, pages 74-84.
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Larike H. Bronkhorst, Liesbeth K.J. Baartman & Karel M. Stokking. (2012) The explication of quality standards in self-evaluation. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 19:3, pages 357-378.
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Margaret Price, Jude Carroll, Berry O’Donovan & Chris Rust. (2011) If I was going there I wouldn’t start from here: a critical commentary on current assessment practice. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 36:4, pages 479-492.
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Jonathan Tummons. (2011) ‘It sort of feels uncomfortable’: problematising the assessment of reflective practice. Studies in Higher Education 36:4, pages 471-483.
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Mantz Yorke. (2011) Summative assessment: dealing with the ‘measurement fallacy’. Studies in Higher Education 36:3, pages 251-273.
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Kerry Hunter & Peter Docherty. (2011) Reducing variation in the assessment of student writing. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 36:1, pages 109-124.
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Karen Handley & Lindsay Williams. (2011) From copying to learning: using exemplars to engage students with assessment criteria and feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 36:1, pages 95-108.
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Peter Williams. (2008) Assessing context‐based learning: not only rigorous but also relevant. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 33:4, pages 395-408.
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Martin Johnson. (2008) Exploring assessor consistency in a Health and Social Care qualification using a sociocultural perspective. Journal of Vocational Education & Training 60:2, pages 173-187.
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